Blogosphere - In this section you'll find commentary, opinion and editorials from blogs and newspapers around the country. The opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Reconnecting America.
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Blogosphere: Wi-Fi Connection for Florence Tramway
Eltis
The initiative is part of a wider project called "Wi-Move" (built up as a partnership between the Tuscany Region and the Municipality of Florence) with the aim of offering free hot spots to citizens and tourists in the most important locations and public spaces of the city...

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Blogosphere: More Zipcar to Avis Analysis
The City Fix
Barely ten years ago, no one knew whether car sharing could even work in North…

Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news.
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Denver: HSR Options for I-70 Corridor on Display
Denver Post
Anyone interested in getting a glimpse of the ideas being floated for high-speed rail between Jefferson County and the Eagle County Airport can do so Thursday...

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Austin: City May Drop Parking Reqs Downtown
Austin American Statesman
Austin might soon ditch a three-decade-old policy of requiring downtown buildings and tenant businesses to have a minimum number of parking spaces…

Tracks News - In this section you'll find news from cities around the country as well as interviews and general reporting on issues. It might be from a newspaper or a blog, but it counts as news.
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National: Obama Tells States "Use It Or Lose It"
Transportation Nation
States will lose out on millions of dollars in federal highway money if they sit on the cash without putting it to immediate use, the White House said in a statement today...

Reconnecting America's Sam Zimbabwe, the director of the Center for Transit-Oriented Development, will be in Somerville, Mass., on Sept. 27 as the keynote speaker at a housing symposium. More details here

Sam Zimbabwe addressed a Steering Committee working on citywide planning issues in the City of Somerville, MA. Building on previous work on equitable TOD in the city and other experiences nationally, Sam's presentation focused on what local jurisdictions can do to support transit-oriented development.

The borough is waiting to find out whether it will earn a special designation from the state Department of Transportation that local officials say will help the municipality as it seeks grants...Read On

There seems to be a consensus that Somerville and Medford should present a unified front when petitioning the state to end the Green Line extension at Route 16 in Medford. But whether there is actually consensus between the two cities on the end point is debatable....Read On

The Green Line extension to Somerville and Medford is getting more
expensive and potentially shorter. Work on a $1.5 billion bus tunnel
underneath Boston Common has been put on hold indefinitely. Seventeen
highway projects valued at $870 million are probably being canceled.....

Somerville: Reconnecting America worked with the Somerville Community Corporation to identify needs and opportunities for equitable transit-oriented development in the City of Somerville, with a focus on the planned extension of the Green Line. The report highlights demographic and real estate trends, and outlines a series of strategies for achieving mixed-income TOD.

These are maps created for work we did for the Somerville CDC on strategies to preserve affordable housing. Somerville Community Corporation (SCC), through the support of the Surdna Foundation, has engaged Reconnecting America’s Center for Transit-Oriented Development to prepare this report on the challenges and opportunities for equitable transit-oriented development, as well as some of the strategies that have been deployed successfully around transit projects elsewhere in the country